In 2007 the French newspaper Le Monde published a manifesto titled "Toward a 'World Literature' in French," signed by forty-four writers, many from France's former colonies. Proclaiming that the francophone label encompassed people who had little in common besides the fact that they all spoke French, the manifesto's proponents, the so-called francophone writers themselves, sought to energize a battle cry against the discriminatory effects and prescriptive claims of francophonie.
TheCambridge Introduction to Francophone Literature
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TheCambridge Introduction to Francophone Literature
Some of the most exciting and stimulating literature to appear during the last few decades has beenwritten by men andwomen living in, or originating from, former colonies of the various European powers. This is certainly true in the case of France and francophone literature.While not quite matching the regularitywith whichnon-metropolitan ‘English’ authors have carried off theMann Booker prize in recent years, winners of the most prestigious French literary prizes have included a significant number
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This landmark text in Francophone studies constitutes the first comprehensive overview of postcolonial issues in French studies. Moving away from reductive geographical or linguistic surveys of the Francophone world, this collection of original essays provides a thematic discussion of the complex historical, political and cultural links between France and its former colonies. Providing a theoretical framework for postcolonial criticism of the field, it also aims to trigger a genuine dialogue between Francophone and Anglophone scholars of postcolonialism.
The Pull of Postcolonial Nationhood: Gender and Migration in Francophone African Literatures
Gender, Migration, and the Claims of Postcolonial Nationhood in Francophone Africa examines three major migrant women writers from Francophone Africa Ken Bugul, Calixthe Beyala, and Fatou Diome. Ayo A. Coly studies what home means in the context of migration and how gender shapes the meaning of home. This is the first study to bring together migrant women from Francophone Africa. This is also the first study to offer a feminist critique of postnationalist discourses of home, specifically the application of postnationalism to the postcolonial context.